August 2005

Right Strategy Again

Gaza pullout will turn terror morass to conventional standoff. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services “Brilliant tactician, lousy strategist.” So goes the conventional wisdom about the old bulldozer Ariel Sharon. Share This

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The Paranoid Style

Iraq: Where socialists and anarchists join in with racialists and paleocons. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online It is becoming nearly impossible to sort the extreme rhetoric of the antiwar Left from that of the fringe paleo-Right. Both see the Iraqi war through the same lenses: the American effort is bound to fail and

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Diplomacy and Terrorism

An analysis of the radically different paths taken by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services “I supported the war, but not the aftermath” is a commonplace lament about Afghanistan and Iraq. But dealing with terrorists and fanatics is never easy. We can attest to that by looking at hotspots — Gaza, Iran and North Korea —

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The Biteback Effect

Do we even have a word to descrive the new criticism? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Sometimes even the English language is without the right word to describe a commonplace occurrence. We don’t, for example, have a term quite like the German schadenfreude: Share This

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Barren Policy

Reviving guestworker program is fruitless by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Millions of people in Mexico need work. Americans have millions of jobs that we apparently won’t do ourselves. Presto! The answer to illegal immigration is obviously a lawful guest-worker program. Share This

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Keep Quiet and Listen!

The words of radical Islam speak for themselves. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online “You will find that the Jews were behind all the civil strife in this world. The Jews are behind the suffering of the nations.” Share This

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Torn Apart Over Iraq

Why do we keep fighting each other over Iraq? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online ISOLATIONISTS Most paleocons did not support either the attack on Afghanistan or Iraq — and did not in the sincere belief it was not in the interest of the United States. Share This

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